Excerpt from An Essay on New TrialsIt is a singular fact, that while other legal topics, of much less interest to the practitioner, are exhausted by elaborate treatises and digests, without end, the subject of new trials, so intimately connected with the progress of the great mass' of causes, should have been in a great measure overlooked. The only attempts, devoted profess edly to this subject, that have met the author's eye, are, Grant's Summary, and Morgan's Essay l the former, a mere syllabus, intermingling brief discussions with occasional examples, confined to a few rules, and to the leading cases in England the latter, 'a mass of precedents Without arrangement, set out in extenso, as found in the reports.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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